Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Anderson light localization in biological nanostructures of native silk

  • Seung Ho Choi,
  • Seong-Wan Kim,
  • Zahyun Ku,
  • Michelle A. Visbal-Onufrak,
  • Seong-Ryul Kim,
  • Kwang-Ho Choi,
  • Hakseok Ko,
  • Wonshik Choi,
  • Augustine M. Urbas,
  • Tae-Won Goo,
  • Young L. Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02500-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Light in biological media is known as freely diffusing because interference is negligible. Here, the authors demonstrate Anderson localization of light from quasi-two-dimensional nanostructures in silk fibres.